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Reduce Your Image Size with the Dive-In Docker Extension

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December 20, 2022


This guest post is written by Prakhar Srivastav, Senior Software Engineer at Google.


Check out the dive-in docker extension

Anyone who’s built their own containers, either for local development or for cloud deployment, knows the advantages of keeping container sizes small. In most cases, keeping the container image size small translates to real dollars saved by reducing bandwidth and storage costs on the cloud. In addition, smaller images ensure faster transfer and deployments when using them in a CI/CD server.

However, even for experienced Docker users, it can be hard to understand how to reduce the sizes of their containers. The Docker CLI can be very helpful for this, but it can be intimidating to figure out where to start. That’s where Dive comes in.

What is Dive?

Dive is an open-source tool for exploring a Docker image and its layer contents, then discovering ways to shrink the size of your Docker/OCI image.

At a high level, it works by analyzing the layers of a Docker…



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